BAR-TAILED GODWIT, 



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GRALLATORES. 



SCOLOFACJBJE. 



THE BAR-TAILED GOD WIT. 



Scobpax ci-gocephahi, Godwit Snipe, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 47. 



,, Common Godwit, Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



,, noveborace)isis. Red breasted Snipe, ,, Suppt. 



,, ,, ,, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 61. 



,, (zgocephala. The Godwit, ,, ,, ,, >> ?• 64. 



l.imosa rvfa. Bar-tailed Godioit, Fi.em. Brit. An. p. 107. 



Red ,, Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 98. 



Bar-tailed ,, Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 202. 



,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. XV. 

 '[ ^^ Barge rousse, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii.p. 668. 



The Bar-tailed Godwit is in its habits in this coun- 

 try very similar to the Black-tailed Godwit last described, 

 with two exceptions; the Bar-tailed Godwit very rarely, if 

 ever, remains to breed, and more frequently stops with us 

 through the winter. In Ireland, Mr. Thompson tells me, it 



